(AKI) - The al-Qaeda international terror network has established a permanent presence in Africa that cannot be overlooked, the African Union (AU)'s peace and security commissioner SaidDjinnit told Algerian daily El Khabar. "Al-Qaeda now has a stable presence in Africa. This problem needs to be tackled. It is ingenuous and wrong to ignore it," said Djinnit. "The first time al-Qaeda struck Africa was in Kenya and Tanzania ten years ago," he said."Now the African continent has a security problem,which affects above sub-Saharan countries. It needs to be dealt with via surveillance of their borders, where arms and drugs trafficking is flourishing."
According to the AU commissioner, terrorists are able to move easily from one African country to another. "The danger is currently coming from Somalia and Sudan. These two countries form a gateway for terrorists heading for Chad, Niger, Mali and Mauritania."
Djinnit urged vigilance, given the radicalisation of Muslims occurring in the Middle East but also in Africa. "To rise to this challange, we need first of all to understand the complexity of the phenomenon and the nature of the threat," he concluded.
| After which you need to kill the terrorists, cut off their money, and whack the governments that support them. |